Arwed Messmer

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Arwed Messmer (* 1964 in Schopfheim ) is a German photographer .

life and work

Arwed Messmer, born 1964 in Schopfheim , Baden-Württemberg, studied visual communication at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences from 1987 to 1992 with a diploma. After an early series of panoramic shots of East German landscapes at the beginning of the 1990s, Messmer dealt primarily with the topography of modern cities in his further artistic work. Since then he has also repeatedly devoted himself to redesigning Berlin. His documentary focus is not only on the visible metamorphoses of architecture, but also on the historical dimension of these places, which is pushed like a filter in front of the perception of today's reality, as in the multi-part work Potsdamer Platz Anno Zero, 1994/95 and the series Stadt / City 1994–1998. While researching historical images for the present book, Arwed Messmer came across the images of the municipal photographer Fritz Tiedemann in the Berlinische Galerie in 2006 and thus came across the majority of the historical photographs in Anonyme Mitte - Berlin, which have been processed to varying degrees. As part of the European Month of Photography 2008, in collaboration with the Berlinische Galerie, he showed large-format, digitally reconstructed and interpreted panoramic cityscapes from the early 1950s, which came from Fritz Tiedemann's rich collection of images. A catalog for this exhibition As far as no eye can see by Tiedemann / Messmer was published by DuMont Verlag , Cologne.

Arwed Messmer lives and works in Berlin .

Teaching activities

  • Teaching assignments, lectures, workshops, etc. a. at the Ostkreuz School for Photography and the International Dresden Summer Academy for Fine Arts.

Awards

  • 1990: DAAD scholarship at the Hochschule für Grafik u. Book art, Leipzig, GDR
  • 1992: Grant for photography from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs
  • 1993: Working grant photography, Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin (for the work: "City")
  • 1995: Otto Steinert Prize of the German Society for Photography for his work "Potsdamer Platz Anno Zero"
  • 1997: Residence grant Oslo, Norway, June / July 1997
  • 1999: Project grant "Artist in Residency" Atlanta, USA, October to December 1999
  • 2001: Working grant, fine arts, Senate for Culture, Berlin (for work: "Kontrakt 903", Rheinsberg NPP)
  • 2004: "Crisis as Laboratory, Buenos Aires", stay in Argentina as part of the 10-year city partnership between Berlin and Buenos Aires
  • 2006: Funding of the project "Brüssow z. Bsp." by VG Bild, Bonn
  • 2008: Book / catalog funding for "Anonyme Mitte" by Senate for Culture, Berlin (published in Spring 2009 by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg)
  • 2014: Art Prize Photography of the State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH

Solo exhibitions

  • 1993: Arwed Messmer - exhibition - "The dream of the realm", Galerie Grauwert, Hamburg
  • 1995: Arwed Messmer - exhibition - "City", gallery in the Scheunenviertel
  • 1997: Arwed Messmer - exhibition - "City", Kunsthalle Köln
  • 2000: Arwed Messmer - exhibition - "Landscapes & Cities", Goethe-Institut, Atlanta, USA
  • 2003: Arwed Messmer - exhibition - "Kontrakt 903", Kunstbank Berlin
  • 2008: Arwed Messmer - Exhibition - "As far as no eye can see", Berlin panorama photographs from the years 1949–1952, taken by Fritz Tiedemann, reconstructed and interpreted by Arwed Messmer, Month of Photography November 2008, Berlinische Galerie
  • 2017: Arwed Messmer RAF - No Evidence / No Evidence , Museum Folkwang , Essen

Publications (selection)

  • 1993: Half an hour before Berlin - snapshot of a small town in the Mark, ex pose Verlag
  • 1993: Photo News, Landscape Between Two Glances
  • 1994: FallWallFall, Potsdamer Platz Anno Zero, catalog
  • 1996: DU magazine, Zurich 6/96, childhood traces of Vladimir Nabokov in Russia
  • 1998: Book of the Otto Steinert Prize Winners from 1979 to 1998
  • 1999: Grand Street, New York, Issue 69, Art from Berlin in the 20th Century
  • 2002: After nature, Berlinische Galerie, catalog
  • 2002: Book "The future begins here, this is where we get out" (Photo: Arwed Messmer, Text: Annett Gröschner ), Berlin Verlag
  • 2003: Book "Kontrakt 903. Remembrance of a bright future" (Image: Arwed Messmer, Text: Annett Gröschner )
  • 2006: Book "Talking Cities" picture contributions
  • 2006: Book "Stadt als Labor", various picture contributions
  • 2007: "Altenburg. Province in Europe", catalog book and documentation volume accompanying the exhibition
  • 2008: "Stages", photo book Johannes Schütz, theater photographs from 7 years, Verlag für modern art Nuremberg
  • 2008: "As far as no eye can see", Berlin panorama photographs from the years 1949–1952, taken by Fritz Tiedemann, reconstructed and interpreted by Arwed Messmer Berlinische Galerie / DuMont Verlag
  • 2008: "Lost Paths", joint project with the author Annett Gröschner, picture and text collage about the dissolution of the industrial society in the Ronnerburger Revier, Thuringia (uranium mining, SDAG Wismut), publishing house for modern art Nuremberg
  • 2008: Photo News 11/08, "As far as no eye can see"
  • 2011: "From a different perspective: the early Berlin Wall". Arwed Messmer (Ed.), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern
  • 2016: “Cell / Cell”, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin
  • 2017: “RAF - No Evidence / No Proof”, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeffrey Ladd: Go Inside East Germany's Stasi Archives . Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  2. ^ Ryan White, Matthew Whitehouse: 4 artists pushing forward the possibilities of photography . iD . November 21, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ Biographical data of Arwed Messmer in: Interlude: After Nature: An examination of the means of contemporary art , Berlinische Galerie, page 99
  4. ^ Biographical data from Arwed Messmer in Anonyme Mitte Berlin
  5. ↑ 1995 Otto Steinert Prize of the German Society for Photography for Arwed Messmer for his work "Potsdamer Platz Anno Zero"
  6. ^ Lotto Brandenburg: Art Prize for Literature Photography from LAND BRANDENBURG LOTTO GmbH. Retrieved December 14, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Messmer, Arwed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Schopfheim , Germany